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I have a document which has been merged with a dataset to produce a set of
letters. The original document has/d some conditional statements which
serve/d to switch paragraphs (inclusion or not) into the final letter.

I'm trying to recover the original doucment with the conditionals and etc,
prior to any merging (currently I can only recover the text/logic of the
switching by running through a dataset to see the totality of possible
outputs - which is instructive but does not permit me to edit the original!).

Anyone know how to recover the original pre-merge document?
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If you did not save it or have access to it, there is no way of going back
to it from the letters that were created by merging it with a datasource.

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I have a document which has been merged with a dataset to produce a set of
letters. The original document has/d some conditional statements which
serve/d to switch paragraphs (inclusion or not) into the final letter.

I'm trying to recover the original doucment with the conditionals and etc,
prior to any merging (currently I can only recover the text/logic of the
switching by running through a dataset to see the totality of possible
outputs - which is instructive but does not permit me to edit the
original!).

Anyone know how to recover the original pre-merge document?



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